


Journal of Kansas Herpetology (25): 9 - get paper here New Records of Amphibians, Reptiles, and Turtles in Kansas for 2007. Center for North American Herpetology, 52 pp. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Fifth Edition. Great Plains Nature Center, Wichita, 69 pp. Herpetological Review 22 (2): 42-43 - get paper here Viewpoint: a new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibians and reptiles. Herpetologica 24 (2): 104-112 - get paper here A proposal of specific status for the western worm snake, Carphophis amoenus vermis (Kennicott). Carphophis amoena vermis and Lampropeltis calligaster in Iowa. The reproductive cycle of the Western Worm Snake, Carphophis vermis, in Missouri Copeia 1973 (3): 472-477. In vermis, the pale ventral pigmentation extends dorsally to body scale row 3 the dorsal coloration is dark gray to gray-violet. amoenus with pale ventral pigmentantion extending dorsally to body scale row 1 or 2 dorsal coloration tan to dark or chestnut brown. Holotype: CHAS (was NWU, but probably lost not in USNM) (P.R. Hybridizes with with Carphophis amoenus helenae in a relictual, disjunct area in NE-Louisiana (CONANT & COLLINS 1991). USA (S Iowa, SE Nebraska, E Kansas, Missouri, Louisiana, E Oklahoma, NE-Texas isolated records from SW Wisconsin, SE Arkansas) vermis - GARMAN 1884: 101Ĭarphophis vermis - CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 181Ĭarphophis amoenus vermis - CRAVEN & KNUDSEN 1996Ĭarphophis amoenus vermis - TENNANT & BARTLETT 2000: 84Ĭarphophis vermis - COLLINS & TAGGART 2002Ĭarphophis vermis - WALLACH et al.

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